Legs: Claw with one inner tooth and two outer lateral teeth. Two or three indistinctly clavate tenent hairs, sometimes absent, to each foot.

Furcula: Short; mucro tapering and about one-third the length of dens. Dens ventrally with five to six setae.

Locality: Specimens of this almost cosmopolitan species have been found so far in only one locality in this country, namely, Davies Bush, Manurewa, Auckland, from where they were reported by Womersley in 1936.

Body: Length 2·3 mm. Antennae slightly longer than head with segments III and IV indistinctly separated. Ant. I: II: III: IV as 10: 9: 3: 11. Ant. IV with many short curved sensory hairs and two short sense rods at apex. No exertile sac. Ocelli eight to each side all large and equal and on dark brown fields. Opposite centre of outer edge of each ocellar field is a strong seta. No trace of any post-antennal organ. Between most segments there are from two to three cuticular folds. Mouth parts elongate and styliform, projecting in front of head, mandibles wanting, maxillae toothed.